Just Plain Weird
Longtime listener Bringeroflighters has asked us to choose our poison, and David, Kaela and Allen have two very, very short pieces of food-themed fiction to imbibe.
“I went to wholefoods at 11am and now i wish i hadnt” and “Local ad” were written by Bringeroflighters.
David, Kaela, Allen and Seid read a story penned in one hour with no proofreading or editing to see if the Shortstory1 effect applies; instead we get a new addition to the Wendigo Cinematic Universe.
Story submitted by Troy Wullbrandt.
This segment has entirely been hijacked by shortstory1 at this point. David, Kaela and Matt get AJ and Gwen to return and see how far the weirdness has gone and what tropes continue.
Stories submitted by shortstory1 Read along below:
1. “Something keeps multiplying inside my apartment”
2. “If you are 30 years old and have a car, job and a house then you are a failure”
3. “I'm just trying to bury my father but drivers keep honking their horn”
4. “I want my room to be red”
5. “I was supposed to be maliciously compliant with my neighbours but it failed”
The whole gang (plus Matt) get together, get drunk, and get properly fed up with this story. They can only handle so much verbose, empty dialogue and passing references to way more interesting details that should have been shown, not told through the narrative. But is this truly the end?
Read along with us here!
David and Kaela are back from a trip, and ready to take on some counseling for a troubled tale of marital strife and a really specific haunting.
Story submitted by Rorshack Rorshan.
The incredibly mysterious author of a past DisneyPasta Challenge story asks us for some feedback, and David, Kaela and Benjamin provide… while falling into a fair amount of tangents since this is a much shorter story. Beware of silly padding!
Story submitted by Shark Cake.
David and Allen have no choice at the moment but to read more shortstory1 oddities this time, and a pattern might be forming…
Stories submitted by shortstory1 Read along below:
1. “I love you so much Melissa”
2. “I want my son to be like me”
3. ”I’m so glad you exist”
4. “There is only 1 kind of social interaction that I like”
5. “I didn’t die for you”
What dry horrors await our readers in this installment? Be prepared for more gripping details of petty gossip among rich old people, long-winded discussions about etymology, and our protagonist apparently manifesting future vision out of nowhere. Also, mongoose.
Read along with us here!
We’re back from our holiday hiatus! David and Allen start 2022 with a hot-off-the-griddle batch of short, weird fiction by the mysterious shortstory1.
Stories submitted by shortstory1 Read along below:
1. “Should I still claim that I have mind powers”
2. “How I helped my daughter manage her fear of ghosts and spirits”
3. “My degree in medicine is useless”
4. “I'm just full of useless knowledge”
5. “I am heir to so many great people”
Themed drinks and sleep deprivation arrive for this second installment, where the Creative Horror gang have to contend with geology, snakes and a sudden, cringe-inducing reminder that racist caricatures existed in novels like this.
Read along with us here!
A new spooky saga begins! Kaela has enlisted the Creative Horror crew to read an infamously maligned horror novel by none other than the writer of Dracula, just to prove that even the most well-known authors can produce duds. The gang is about to find out why, and start plotting how they might drink their way through it in a creative way.
Read along with us here!
We’re not strangers to fan fiction on this show, and luckily four of the five hosts - Kaela, Allen, Seid and Raevell - have some decent context to work with, while David is very much in the dark. Will this horror take on Madoka Magica leave the desired impression regardless of knowledge of the source material? And will Allen get the $5000 necessary to reveal his own Bionicle fiction at last?
Story submitted by neosaiyanangel.
The noble tradition of getting Random Encounters to read stories with us continues! Having just wrapped shooting of Your Happy Ending the night before, we awake at the crack of 2pm to read a collection of five very short stories with varying themes of quirky horror and a bit of NoSleep energy.
Stories submitted by shortstory1 Read along below:
1. “Hello I would like to order a pizza”
2. “I regret turning an Instagram tiktok influencer into a vampire”
3. “I am going to allow my son to be weird for 12 hours instead of just 1 hour”
4. “Donate to my charity guys”
5. “My mother is still scared of the dark”
David regrets accepting this ClericofMadness story almost instantly, and Allen recounts how a Midwest accent ruined a certain experience.
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David, Kaela and Papreeka have a hankering for some seafood this episode, but do they plan on going out to eat? Where’ the fun in that? Fortunately they have a handy guide submitted during the RitualPasta Challenge to aid them in this difficult task.
Story by RabidRadioactiveRaccoons.
Allen, Sean, De’Markcus and Brad bring you campfire stories. With no campfire. Recorded in a truck. While someone blasts techno music in the background. Huh…
David and Allen feel anything but comfy and cozy in this cabin.
Story’s original author unknown. Read along here.
I shouldn't have recorded this episode with Kaela, AJ, Gwen and Nate while making Blues Traveler references, but anyway...
Story credited to JC-the-Hyena. Read along here.
David and Abysmii make a descent into the dark depths of this week’s story, and sadly neglected to bring along a certain robot canary to check for toxic gases. Will they strike gold, or is this epistolary story a dead end?
Story credited to Daltsch. Read along here.
